Cable-stitch holder



July 30,1946.

' 3. MARSHALL ,8 5

CABLE-STITCH HOLDER Filed May s, 1945 INVENTOR.

Patented July 30, 1946 CABLE-STITCH HOLDER Gertrude R. Marshall, Schenectady, N. Y., as-

signor to C. J. Bates & Son, Chester, Conn., a

Application May a, 1945, Serial No. 591,786

1 Claim. 1

This invention relates to improvements in knitting implements and is directed more particularly to improvements in hand knitting stitch holders.

The principal objects of the invention are directed to the provision of a stitch holder for hand knitting which is constructed and arranged in a novel manner so as to be adapted, among other purposes, for holding stitches in knitting cable-stitch patterns and other operations.

With the foregoing and various other novel features and advantages and other objects of my invention as will become more apparent as the description proceeds, the invention consists in certain novel features of construction and in the combination and arrangement of parts as will be hereinafter more particularly pointed out in the claim hereunto annexed and mor fully described and referred to in connection with the accompanying drawing wherein:

Fig. 1 is a side elevational view of the implement of the invention;

Fig. 2 is a plan view of the implement shown in Fig. 1; and V Fig. 3 is a sectional elevational view of the implement shown in Figs. 1 and 2.

Referring now to the drawing in detail, the

novel features of the invention will be more fully described.

A stitch holder implement is represented at 2 which is in the form of an elongated metal body preferably cylindrical in cross section.

The implement may be made from various material, such as metal, plastic, or the like, and as compared to the length of a knitting needle it is relatively shorter in length.

Opposite ends of the body are tapering to provide pointed ends 4, as shown, to facilitate ready and easy insertion and withdrawal thereof in and from loops or stitches in knitting operations.

Intermediate the ends of the body it is formed to provide a dip or curve 6 that is offset at a side of the end portions 8 of the device. The width of the curved portion is preferabl narrow as compared with the length of the device, as shown.

The device is adapted for many and various uses in connection with various hand knitting operations but is particularly adapted for use 2 in the knitting of cable stitch patterns and the like.

In connection with knitting cable-stitch patterns, it is common practice to employ two or more needles for the knitting operation and one or more other straight needles onto which cablestitch loops are slipped for holding them while certain knitting operations are being performed.

The straight needles not only usually interfere with the needles and fingers of the knitter so as to amount to a source of annoyance but frequently the cable-stitch loops are lost from the needle by the needle slipping through the loops or otherwise.

The device of this invention is adapted to have cable-stitch loops slipped thereunto from the knitting needles and being of less length than the knitting needles does not interfere with the knitting operation. And the loops or at least some of them received on the device may he slipped to the ofiset portion so that they are not likely to be displaced from the holderas is the case where a normal length knitting needl is used for holding loops.

The invention may be embodied in other specific forms without departing from the essential characteristics thereof. Hence, the present embodiments are therefore to be considered in all respects merely as being illustrative and not as being restrictive, the scope of the invention being indicated by the appended claim rather than by the foregoing description, and all modifications and variations as fall within the meaning and purview and range of equivalency of the appended claim are therefore intended to be embraced therein.

What it is desired to claim and secure by Letters Patent of the United States is:

As a new article of manufacture a stitch holding device for hand knitting operations comprising in combination, an elongated rod-like body having opposite pointedfree ends in substantial axial alignment and said body intermediate said ends having an offset loop portion formed by portions which curve inwardly from said opposite ends and outwardly away from the longitudinal axes of said ends and are connected together.

GERTRUDE R. MARSHAIL. 

